Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 July 1941 — Page 17

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/' | WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1041

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CHICAGO, July 16.—We arrived here from the mountain country to find an old familiar figure in an old familiar place. It was Red Grange, the Galloping Ghost of football, and he was riding the page one headlines once

again.

But this time he wasn’t spinning and weaving to touch-

downs for dear old Hlinois, leaving in his wake a string of frustrated tacklers as he roared on to All-America distinction as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, ball carriers in the history of the college sport. This time he was suing Wendell Weenie Wilson, a-.team-mate back in 1924 and at present vaguely identified as Director of Athleticsatthe state university. We say vaguely, ; because up to a Wendell Wilson hg Wilson was in fact the director. Now, due to action taken at an emergency meeting of the trustees, he is “on leave of absence for one. year.” Grange’s suit, $50,000 for libel, ties up with this action which prirharily centers around Bob Zuppke, the veteran coach. - At this same meeting of the trustees yesterday Zuppke's contract was renewed for another year with the implication he will be continued as varsity coach until he attains retirement age which is 65 ‘at the university. Zuppke

. is 62.

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THERE HAS BEEN a Zuppke * s8ituation out here for some time, a bitter, acrimonious conflict between two powerful alumni groups. Grange has thrown his support to his ‘old coach; Wilson, the athletic director who appears to be in the process of being gently eased out, has been active on the other side.

Had Been After Zup : From the moment he took

* charge of athletics at Illinois, suc- - ceeding the

late George Huff, Wilson has scarcely been Zuppke’s most ardent admirer. In 1938 he persuaded Zuppke to resign “for the best interests of the school.” It developed: this was more or less an individual opinion bécause the trustees refused to accept Zuppke’s resignation and he has been on the job ever since. The stormy squabble popped

‘out in the open again this week

when Wilson took strong excep‘tion to certain comments said to have been uttered by Grange. These comments - accused Wilson of seeking Zuppke's job for himself. Wilson countered by calling Grange a contemptible liar. This crack moved the old red head to get himself a lawyer and sue for libel, pleading the conventional wounds as the result of “malicious, false, slanderous and defamatory statements.”

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WE IMAGINE, too, that Zuppke’s happiness is heightened by the fact that Grange didn’t let him down. Throughout every fight that has beén directed at the

old man Grange was at his side.

This hasn't been true of some other men who stafred under Zuppke. If is significant that it was consistently true of the man who made No. 77 a magic combination in football lore. Illinois hasn't been all-powerful in the Big Ten since Grange quit. Thus it might not seem fantastic or illogical to suggest that it was

Grange rather than Zuppke who

accounted for the brilliant years. If any one should have a strong opinion as to that it would seem to be Grange and it’s plain he leaves no one in doubt as to what his opinion is: He’s all for the old

_ coach,

Grange and Manager

It doesn’t seem so many years ago that we are out here trying to run down an early season rumor that Grange, at that time the most highly publicized college

- player in the country, was going

to turn professional. That was the first time we. ever heard of Charley: Pyle and nobody seemed to know much about him other

than that he operated a aoall movie house a} Wheaton, Ill. :

THE CONNECTION between Grange and Pyle was obscure. He was just about the last person in the world a reporter would think of contacting to learn anything about “Grange's future. But it turned out he was the gent you had to see if you wanted tc do business with the red head; he had been smart enough to sense that Grange couldn't miss capitalizing on his enormous ' publicity and had made himself the player’s business manager. That was the beginning of cash-and-carry Pyle’s lurid and meteoric career as a sports promoter. He made plenty of money for Grange and for himself. and promptly proceeded. to lose it all, OF mosh of it—both Grange’s and hi Pyle was addicted to wild promotional dreams, the wildest of which was the mad, hilarious, incredible bunion derby, a foot race from coast fo coast and back again. It didn’t have much chance commercially, from the start and it was so frightfully mismanaged that it broke Pyle and took most of Grange’s bank roll, too. The last fime we saw Pyle alive was right here on-the lake front. He wis running a freak show. It always seemed to’us he remained in character to the end.

Two Questions At 1llinois

CHICAGO, July 16 (U. P.).—Bob Zuppke’s second successful fight in thre years to.retain his Illinois football coaching job clarified the university’s athletic tangle today but raised two new questions. 1. Who will handle Athletic Director Wendell S. Wilson's duties while he takes a one-year “leave of absence” before retiring permanently? 2. Do University officials expect Zuppke, content that his regime was vindicated, to rétire in 1942, Two years before the final deadliné? University trustees decided yesterday to remew Wilson's contract only for the year end in September, 1942, and to give him a leave of absence in the interim. President Arthur Cutts Willard said he had reached no décision on the choice of an acting director. Basketball

Coach Doug Mills and Baseball

Coach Wally Roettger were mentioned as possible appointees..

Must Retire at 65

In deciding to retain Zuppke, the trustees attached a condition that he must retire in three years at the age of 65. But they added another proviso requiring Zuppke to confer with Willard and the Athletic Board before next March 1 to determine whether he should retire in 1942 or remain active. It was admitted that the plan was only a temporary settlement for the dispute which has revolved around Zuppke since 1938 when his feud with Wilson developed. Trustee Chester Davis said the controversy could not be settled permanently now because “it runs deeper than personalities” but that the plan would provide a temporary solution. The University’s athletic board, with Wilson not voting, divided three to three on approving the plan, which was based on Willard’s recommendations and endorsed by the trustees athletic committee. Three alumni members of the athletic board favored the plan and three faculty members opposed it. A faculty spokesman said they opposed the plan because it did not settle the controversy. After trustees approved the plan by a unanimous vote, the Athletic Board members all submitted their resignations in ‘a move to aid in restoring harmony. The trustees accepted the resignations and scheduled a meeting next Tuesday to act on Willard’s nomina-

tions for a new Athletic Board.

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helps New York win, 6-4.

Don Padgeit of the St. Louis Cardinals frantically wraps himself

play. George Magerkuth calls the

Giant first baseman safe on Pitcher Bob Carpenter's single, which

turning point in the major league the 1941 American League flag may

| which begins in Cleveland today.

Southpaw. Marius Russo is slated to match curves with the Indians’ big lefthander, Al Milnar, in the opening contest. The Yankees probably will come back with Red Ruf-

fing. Lefty Gomez or Ernie Bonham for the next two games. The Indians can counter with Jim. Bagby

morrow. Bobby Feller will be ready for the third game. = The Yankees, gE red-hot and rolling fast with 21 i victories. in 24 starts, lead the second-place Indians by five games. If they sweep the series, Cleveland will be eight games offstride. and the Tribe's ability to come from behind in the stretch has so far remained hidden.

Three Out of Ten

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two games if the Indians were to win all three, an unlikely development. Unlikely because in 10 meetings with the New Yorkers this season, the Indians have won only three. Two of those victories were turned in by Feller and the other by Mel Harder, who hasn't essayed 8 starting job since June 24. A 5-4 victory over the Chicago White Sox yesterday enabled the Yanks to pick up a full game on the Indians, who lost to the Boston Red Sox, 6-4. Buddy Rosar’s triple with the bases loaded featured a four-run rally in the third. Joe DiMaggio collected a single and a double to run his batting streak to 55 games, Joe Dobson, Cleveland castoff, shackled his former mates with four hits as the Red Sox, crippled by the loss of Ted Williams and Jim Tabor, hammers ig hits for their first win in the t four starts against the Tribe.

McCosky Homers

Barney McCosky’s first homer of the year in the seventh inning|7 provided the winning edge as thes Detroit Tigers shaded the Philadelphia Athletics, 3-2. Buck Newsom held the A’s to seven hits for his eighth victory. . The Brooklyn Dodgers

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Chicago Cubs twice; 7-0 and 8-4, to run § their National League lead to four games as

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Cardinals nosed out the Philadelphia Phillies, 3 3-2, in aie innings. Joe Medwick paced : Joe Medwick the Dodgers at the plate in both games. He had two out of three in the opener and three for five in the nightcap.’ Curt Davis neld the Cubs to four hits for his fifth win in the first'game while Luke Hamlin, making his first start since June 21, held the Bruins to six blows. The Cards ande Phils fought 16 innings before Jimmy Brown’s long fly with loaded bases and npne out scored the deciding run. Johnny Hopp opened the Toth b by beating out a slow roller and Johnny Mize reached first

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The Clevelands Get Their Big Chance at Yankees Today

By PAUL SCHEFFELS United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, July.16.—The Fourth of July may be the fraditiongl

pennant races, but, as far as the

New York Yankees and Cleveland Indians are concerned, possession of

be decided in the three-game series

Pearson tossed his bunt wild. Enos Slaughter walked and set up the play for Brown. Max Butcher stopped the New York, Giants for the fourth time this year as the Pittsburgh Pirates won, 5-1, behina his seven-hit pitching. The: Pirates knocked out 10 hits and were helped by four Giant eITOorsS. The Cincinnati Reds blanked the Boston Braves, 3-0, as. Johnny Vander Meer fanned 11 and allowed only four hits for his eighth victory and fourth shutout.

Siebert Hits Ball

PHILADELPHIA, July 16 (NEA). Dick Siebert is one of the main reasons the Athletics are farther away from the American league cellar this season than usual. The little

publicized first baseman is clipping the ball at a .345 average.

Ellis and Vein, Adoance i in Golf Tourney

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Eight Gol Golfers Left in State Women’s Meet

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~~ SOUTH BEND, Ind, July 16 (U. P.) ~Defending Champion Doro- « thy Ellis, Indianapolis,” moved ‘up to the semifinals of the Siate Women’s Golf Tournament at the Morris Park Country Club today

by defeating ‘Mrs. P. G. Skillern of South Bend. 4 and 3. Miss Carolyn Varin of Indianapolis defeated Mrs. Lester Emmons of South Bend, 5 and 4.

"SOUTH BEND, Ind., July ¥ (U. P.).—Eight women golfers took to the fairways today in the second round of state championship play and most spectators were agreed that Dorothy Ellis, Indianapolis school teacher and defending champion, was the gal to beat.

Miss Ellis, who won her way to second round play with a handy 6-to-5 win over Mrs. W. H. Simmons of Indianapolis yésterday, was scheduled to meet Mrs. P. G. Skillern of South Bend in today’s quarter-final matches.

PAIRINGS TODAY

~—Upper Bracket— Dorothy Ellis, Meridian Hills, Indianapolis, vs. Mrs. P. G.° Skilern, South Bend Country Club, Carolyn Varin, Highland Golf and Country Club, Indianapolis, vs. Mrs. Lester Fmmons, Eskine Park, South Bend. ~—Lower Bracket—

Mrs. Francis Rubach, Cressmoor Country Club, Gary, vs. Mrs. W. F. Derves, Christiana Country Club, Elkhart. Mrs. Robert Eager, Lafayette Country Club, vs. Miss Carolyn Pickering, Anderson Country Club.

Another Indianapolis golfer, Miss Carolyn Varin, weathered first round play and appeared to be. the most dangerous threat to Miss Ellis. She defeated Mrs. E. D. Anderson of Anderson, 6 to 5, yesterday. If the Misses Ellis and Varin come through as expected, Thursday’s semi-final will find the two paired in what should be the most

exciting match of the tourney.

Amateur Softba Il Notes

The Indianapolis Amateur Softball Association will stage their eighth annual City Softball Tournament starting the first week in August. P. R. Mallory Local 1001 is the first team to enter. All 122 teams who were members of the Indianapolis Softball Association on June 23 will be eligible to compete in this tournament. This early registration was put into effect to eliminate teams that were organized late in the season for the purpose of entering the City Tournament, using players who had played with other teams during the league season. A player|® must be registered and play with only one team in the tourney this year. Teams must register by Saturday noon, Aug. 2, at the Recreation Department of the City

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The Weak Sisters

NEW YORK, July 15 (NEA) —A team wins a pennant by fattening up on weak opposition and the Brooklyns are playing this: system to the hilt. . The Dodgers bagged 10 of 12 from the last-place Phillies and 9 of 12 from the seventh-place

Braves. The Brooks have 11 more with Boston and 10 with Philadelphia. If they fail to pick up 15 additional victories a lot of people will

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American Can vs. Ga ri d 2. I. D. 8. Employees vs, Peerless Foundry at Willard 1. Indiana bis Glove vs. Packard Oapehart at Brookside 1.

p Schedule 11 for Bush-Feezle ‘Wednesday City ar i ‘Ingjenapolis News vs. C. A. OC. at RiverBroadwa

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George J. Mayer vs. Indianapolis Buddies at Willard 2.

Schedule for Bush-Feezie Junior League: on Side dies vs. W. I. Merchants at

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Wisconsin Badger ,/Gets On His Feet

MADISON, Wis., July 16 (NEA) —

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Stewart-Warner Holds Leadership

Stewart-Warner successfully defended their lead in the Bush Feezle Factory League by defeating E. C. Atkins in a hard fought game, 3 to 1. Frank Bardash homered with Charlie Fuhk on_base to provide the winning margin. Mallory Local 1001 stayed on their

| heels by slaughtering International

Harvester 17 to 0 behind the ne» hit pitching of Tommy Lang. Danny Veza's triple in the sixth with the bases loaded broke a 1 and 1 deadlock and gave Kingan A. A. a 5 to 1 victory over U. 8. \'ires. The standing is as*follows:

Ran uk Harvester It was announced that Continental Steel of Hammond will play a double-header Sunday night, going against Mallory at 8 p. m. and taking on Stewart-Warner at 9:15 p. m.

Russo Pulls Muscle

CHICAGO, July 16 (NEA) —Mari-

us Russo has pulled ‘a muscle in his

left thigh. It prevents the Yankee

southpaw from moving quickly to either side.

All-Time High LOS ANGELES, July 16 (NEA) .— Santa Anita Park will distribute $1,160,000 in purses next winter, an all-time high in American racing.

DiMag Now Has Eye on His Own Minor Mark of 61 Games

* Yankees had the lad who was to bat and field them to four straight world championships and who is ‘now leading them to a fifth as Maggio’'s ‘goal was to crack his | the most magnetic single attracown AA league record by hitting { tion in the game. in 62 consecutive games. "5 0» DiMaggio recalls how his minor ZACK TAYLOR never believed league string was snapped at 61 | he would live to see the day when when his long fly enabled the | a pallplayer would welcome a litwinning run to score in the ninth | tle sunshine. inning. That was in 1933, the But the old catcher says that’s Yankee Big Boy's first season in | the most pleasing thing about his organized ball. He was only 18 | being switched to the Browns as at the time, and Jimmy Caveney, | coach to make room for Fred the San Francisco manager, had | Haney as the Toledo manager. him leading off so as to get in as Taylor offers a sure cure for a many times at bat as possible. | major leaguer not hustling or DiMaggio’'s American League | complaining about the heat, bow was held up a year by a knee It is a brief sentence to night injury, which wasn't suffered on ball in the minors.

By HARRY GRAYSON NEA Service Sports Editor NEW YORK, July 16.—Once he skyrocketed into the 50s, Joe Di-

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